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Income taxes are typically set to raise revenues and redistribute income at the lowest possible efficiency costs, which … result from the distortions in individual behaviors that taxes entail. Individuals can respond along many margins, such as … labor supply, tax avoidance and evasion, and geographic mobility. But one margin that taxes may affect -- innovation -- is …
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The idea that marginal tax rates and tax revenue may be inversely related is at least as old as Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. The emergence of the "Laffer Curve" in the modern public debate on the subject has rekindled interestin this idea. The present paper uses data from the 1982 tax rate...
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The Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 mandated the most substantial reduction in personal income tax rates since the tax cuts of 1964. The rate reductions stimulated debates about the responsiveness of taxpayers to tax rates and incentives, the magnitude of the foregone revenue, and the...
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The recent proposal for tax reform developed by the Department of the Treasury suggests dramatic changes in the structure of the personal income tax. One likely side effect of the changes will be a significant adverse impact on the level of charitable contributions by individuals.This paper...
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We use a new dataset consisting of the universe of Greek corporate tax returns matched to financial statements to study a voluntary tax compliance program for small firms. This "self-assessment" program prescribed target taxable profit margins for different types of activity. Firms that reported...
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use to think about income and estate taxes. To that end, I run large-scale online surveys and experiments on … to taxes: efficiency effects, distributional implications, and fairness considerations. But they also elicit broader … concerns that could influence policy views, such as misperceptions, views of government, perceived spillovers from taxes, and …
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Tax policies are a wide array of tools, commonly used by governments to influence the economy. In this paper, we review the many margins through which tax policies can affect innovation, the main driver of economic growth in the long-run. These margins include the impact of tax policy on i) the...
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Higher corporate taxes reduce corporate business operations, replacing them with operations by noncorporate businesses … higher corporate taxes can increase income inequality even when the corporate tax burden falls entirely on capital owned …
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countries with whom Japan has agreements are entitled to claim foreign tax credits for income taxes that they would have paid to …
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This paper examines the investment effects of tax subsidies for which some assets and not others are eligible. Distortionary tax subsidies encourage firms to concentrate investments in tax-favored assets profitability of investment and reducing payoffs to bondholders in the event of default....
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